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Scratch/Cut On Hand PLESE HELP -- I AM JUST A KID......

First and foremost .... I am sorry for Such a Long Question .... but I am still Just a KID ..... and VERY SCARED .....
My Anxiety is Now Going through the Roof ...... Please Help me Understand the Why's in this Situation ......NOBODY HAD TO HAVE SURGERY OR STITCHES ......

I have a question about our Co-Worker who is Openly HIv+
She has HIV

Simple -- The week we were putting up the Christmas Tree at Work ...... We bumped into each other and somehow he scratched me and I scratched him….. .... She scratches the bottom part of her wrist and her hand and I scratched the top of my hand ..... Her scratch is immediately bleeding and my scratch is immediately bleeding .......

But the fact is Her scratch on her wrist and hand is immediately bleeding and my scratch on the top of my hand is immediately bleeding ... So she reaches her hand up with the scratch that is immediately bleeding on it to say she is sorry…. and grabs my hand where it is immediately bleeding and she is now resting her immediately bleeding scratch on her wrist and hand against the immediately bleeding scratch on my elbow to say I'm sorry ..... Her scratch is directly contacting and lying on top my scratch for about 10 seconds or more as she says I’m sorry— So I pull my arm back quickly — but again …..

Now there is 10 or more seconds of full blown Immediate Direct Contact -- without Intervening steps — where these scratches are directly lying on top of each other

So immediately we get these scratches that are immediately bleeding she grabs my elbow holds it for 10 or more seconds to say Im sorry
— and his immediate bleeding scratch on her hand that is freshly bleeding is immediately directly
touching, directing contacting… touching and lying directly exactly where I just got a scratch at the exact same time that is freshly bleeding …..

So we are touching for 10 or more seconds…. The spot on her wrist and hand that is freshly bleeding is having full blown immediate direct contact to the scratch on the top of my hand that is freshly bleeding and I am having immediate direct contact (with no intervening steps) immediate direct exposure... 10 or more seconds of full blown immediate and direct exposure….. 10 or more seconds of full blown immediate direct contact …. 10 or more seconds of full blown immediate direct bodily access into my bodily system straight from the immediate fresh bleeding scratch on his hand onto and into me from the scratch on the top of my hand
with her fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv+ infected fluids, with her fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv+ blood , fresh full blown positively charged hiv+ hiv… immediately .. directly onto and into my
scratch on the top of my hand that is freshly bleeding from her freshly bleeding scratch on her wrist and hand for 10 or more seconds that is now going onto and into my bodily system … onto and into my body from this incident
No gloves No bandages on either of us — Bleeding Open skin on bleeding open skin… Bleeding open scratch on bleeding open scratch … bleeding open wound on bleeding open wound —
her new freshly bleeding hand now immediately
lying directly over, directly onto and immediately directly into… and directly
contacting … lying on my scratch on the top of my hand that stings and is freshly bleeding 10 or more seconds of continuous immediate direct contact of his on his hand scratch that is bleeding firmly gripping and
firmly shaking the top of my hand where both her hand that is freshly bleeding is
touching and directly contacting the exact same spot where I have a freshly bleeding top of my hand to say I’m sorry

So Again …..No gloves and No bandages are now having 10 or more seconds of immediate full blown direct exposure onto and into my body…

10 or more seconds of immediate full blown direct contact onto and into my body …
10 or more seconds of immediate full blown direct bodily access onto and into into my fresh bleeding scratch on the top of my hand onto and into my blood stream …. my bodily system my body from the fresh bleeding scratch on the bottom of her wrist and on her hand onto and with his
fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv + infected fluids, her
fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv + blood, his
fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv+ hiv onto and into my body through the
fresh bleeding cut on the top of my hand from her fresh bleeding cut on her hand.

So I am having direct contact —hand scratch freshly bleeding lying directly
and having immediate direct contact on my freshly bleeding stingy scratch on the top of my hand .....

Both skin her and mine gets scratched at the same immediate time and freshly
bleeding … then less than 1 second goes by and ….. Skin to Skin….. Scratch to Scratch…. Wound to Wound — 10 or more seconds….4 seconds of immediate full blown direct contact into my body … and 10 or more seconds of immediate full blown direct bodily access into my bloodstream and my bodily system from the fresh bleeding scratch on the bottom of her wrist and her hand with his fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv + infected fluids, her fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv+ blood, her fresh full blown hiv positively charged hiv+ hiv onto and into my body through the fresh bleeding cut on the top of my hand from her fresh bleeding cut on the bottom of her wrist and on her hand. with a strong grippy firm tight ......completely direct contacted cut on cut 10 oo more second direct contact shake with and where both wounds are immediately directly touching and directly contacting each other with no intervening steps

With all this that just happened …. Even with this HIV+ person she has HIV.... HIV+ — Her viral load is the highest & strongest ever seen...... The Highest and Strongest HIV+ viral load in the World — Even with the strongest & highest viral load ever seen....... PLEASE HELP ME .......

So from her having a immediate fresh bleeding scratch on the bottom of her wrist and on her hand and I having a immediate fresh bleeding scratch on the top of my hand — onto and into my injuries for 10 or more seconds and now into my bloodstream and my body … into me into my bodily system …… All this full blown immediate direct contact and access of her HIV+ infected fluids, HIV+ infected blood and fully positively charged HIV.. HIV+ onto and into my immediate bleeding open bleeding cut and now into my bloodstream and bodily system — into my body — even with this girl having the highest viral load ever …. ever seen …. PLEASE HELP ME !!

Thank You so Much .....

Answer:

Hello,

Thank you for your inquiry. From what we gather from the question, you were asking about acquiring HIV from contact between two freshly made wounds. From the information given, this scenario is determined to be Low Risk (Evidence of transmission occurs through these activities when certain conditions are met).

The scenario mentioned above does meet the three components of the transmission equation. The three components in order for the transmission equation to be satisfied are bodily fluids, a high risk activity and direct access to the bloodstream (1). In this scenario there was blood, an activity of skin to skin contact although it is not considered a high risk activity, ( these include unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse, sharing needles, and mother to child) and direct access to the bloodstream through open wounds (1). In extremely rare cases, HIV has been transmitted through contact between wounds and HIV- infected blood (2). Please consider this quote from CDC "HIV does not survive long outside the human body (such as on surfaces), and it cannot reproduce outside a human host" (2). HIV becomes inactive quite quickly when exposed to oxygen.

AIDS Vancouver plays a special role in providing quality health care to people affected by HIV/AIDS living in the Lower Mainland. It is clearly more than just a community health care organization. It is an organization whose presence and continued strength is essential to the quality for life of this community and of each individual and family who draws on its services. Our Agency is a vital community asset which everyone affected by HIV/AIDS can share, and in which we all have a stake.